The Sun remembers: Sept. 9-15

Sept. 10, 2000: Down by 17 points, the Ravens storm back to defeat visiting Jacksonville, 39-36 — their first victory over the Jaguars in the team's five-year history. Tony Banks' 29-yard touchdown pass to Shannon Sharpe in the final minute gives Baltimore its second straight victory.

Sept. 11, 1976: Twelfth-ranked Maryland rolls over Richmond, 31-7, in its football opener — the first of 11 straight victories for the Cotton Bowl-bound Terps. Led by quarterback Mark Manges and tailback Steve Atkins, Maryland's offense gains 421 yards.

Sept. 15, 1966: Inhis big league debut, the Orioles' Tom Phoebus (Mount St. Joseph) pitches a four-hit shutout to defeat the visiting California Angels, 2-0. Brooks Robinson and Curt Blefary hit home runs for the first-place Birds to back the 24-year-old right-hander from Hampden.

Sept. 15, 1963: Don Shula's debut as the Colts' head coach is forgettable: The New York Giants rally from a 21-3 deficit to defeat Baltimore, 37-28 before a then-record announced crowd of 60,029 at Memorial Stadium. Johnny Unitas passes for two touchdowns and Gino Marchetti rumbles 33 yards with a fumble recovery for a score.

Sept. 12, 1962: Washington's Tom Cheney strikes out 21 Orioles, a major league record, in the Senators' 2-1 victory at Memorial Stadium. Cheney, a right-hander who included the knuckleball in his arsenal, goes the distance in the 16-inning game, throws 228 pitches and fans every Oriole in the starting lineup except Boog Powell.

Sept. 11, 1959: The fifth-place Orioles sweep a doubleheader from American League-leading Chicago as Jack Fisher and Jerry Walker, both 20-year-old right-handers, blank the White Sox, 3-0 and 1-0. Fisher pitches a three-hitter and Walker goes the distance in a 16-inning game won by Brooks Robinson's RBI single.

Sept. 14, 1958: All eyes are on Joe Bellino, "the flying fireplug," a 5-foot-8, 185-pound sophomore tailback, as Navy, last year's Cotton Bowl champion, prepares for the football season. "We have the foundation [of the team]," coach Eddie Erdelatz says. "What the building will look like, I can't tell." The Midshipmen will finish 6-3.

Sept. 10, 1944: More than 25,000 fans mob the Orioles at Penn Station on their return from Jersey City, where they defeated the Giants, 5-0, to win the International League pennant for the first time since 1925. The crowd stops traffic on Charles Street, rings cowbells and holds signs that read, "Stick With Them Birds!"